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    A trans-lunar injection (TLI) is a propulsive maneuver, which is used to send a spacecraft to the Moon. Typical lunar transfer trajectories approximate...
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    upper-stage burn caused it to miss its planned impact on the Moon. A trans-Mars injection (TMI) is a heliocentric orbit in which a propulsive maneuver is used...
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    and 30 seconds spent in the parking orbit. This was followed by a trans-lunar injection (TLI) burn of the S-IVB third stage for 318 seconds, accelerating...
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    54,000 kg to trans-lunar injection. Its first flight is planned for 2033, in anticipation of an increase in cadence by China's crewed lunar missions during...
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    lifting 70 tonnes into low Earth orbit (LEO) and 27 tonnes into trans-lunar injection trajectories. There are also plans for a variant, the Long March...
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    from March to April 1968. The flight plan called for following trans-lunar injection with a direct return abort using the service module's main engine...
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    Test Article as ballast. The intent of this mission was to achieve trans-lunar injection, followed closely by a simulated direct-return abort, using the...
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    upper stage carrying the Orion spacecraft separated and performed a trans-lunar injection before releasing Orion and deploying ten CubeSat satellites. Orion...
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    In astronomy and spaceflight, a lunar orbit (also known as a selenocentric orbit) is an orbit of an object around Earth's Moon. In general these orbits...
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  • molecule Trans-lunar injection, propulsive maneuver of a spacecraft towards the Moon TRANS.COM, an 8080/Z80 to 8088/8086 computer code translator Cis-trans isomerism...
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  • performed TEI after visiting Comet Wild 2. Lunar orbit insertion Trans-lunar injection Trans-Mars injection Godwin, Robert (1999). Apollo 8: The NASA Mission...
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    staging area for future lunar missions. In contrast with low lunar orbit which NASA characterizes as being deep in the lunar gravity well, NRHO is described...
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    which makes it more suitable for higher-energy orbits, such as the trans-lunar injection required for Apollo missions. Conversely, RP-1 offers higher energy...
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    another. Lunar transfer orbit (LTO)[clarification needed] accomplished with trans-lunar injection (TLI) Mars transfer orbit (MTO) also known as trans-Mars...
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    traditional trans-lunar injection, and allow for a doubling of payload. Robert Farquhar had described a 9-day route from low earth orbit to lunar capture...
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    V rocket. There it remained through Earth parking orbit and the trans-lunar injection (TLI) rocket burn to send the craft toward the Moon. Soon after...
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    minor compared to the difference between lunar night and lunar day. At the lunar poles, instead of usual lunar days and nights of about 15 Earth days,...
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    requiring the payload to perform orbit circularization and possibly trans-lunar injection burns. The only completely new hardware development to be required...
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    Apollo 11's trans-lunar injection remains in a solar orbit near to that of Earth. The main repository for the Apollo Moon rocks is the Lunar Sample Laboratory...
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    that Apollo 12 took 8 hours longer to go from trans-lunar injection to lunar orbit. Apollo 12 entered a lunar orbit of 170.2 by 61.66 nautical miles (315...
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    This propulsion system was designed to handle the trans-lunar injection, trajectory corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and powered descent. The propulsion...
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    stage. NASA will develop the EUS to increase SLS performance for trans-lunar injection beyond Block 1 specifications. The improved upper stage was originally...
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    Retrieved 6 August 2019. ...after the Space Launch System performs the Trans-Lunar Injection burn that sends the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and toward the...
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    LEO, 4.1 and 3.8 for LEO to lunar orbit (or L5) and GEO resp., 0.7 for L5 to lunar orbit, and 2.2 for lunar orbit to lunar surface. Figures come from Chapter...
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    Retrieved 6 August 2019. ...after the Space Launch System performs the Trans-Lunar Injection burn that sends the spacecraft out of Earth orbit and toward the...
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  • orbit injection maneuvers occur when a spacecraft enters a transfer orbit, e.g. trans-lunar injection (TLI), trans-Mars injection (TMI) and trans-Earth...
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    a lunar flyby for a maximum of 21 days using the Block 1 variant of the Space Launch System. The mission profile is a multi-trans-lunar injection (MTLI)...
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    propellant to achieve Earth orbit, so it could be restarted for trans-lunar injection. The S-IVB on the Saturn IB needed all of its propellant to achieve...
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    N1 (rocket) (category Soviet lunar program)
    for trans-lunar injection; another stage used for mid-course corrections, lunar orbit insertion, and the first part of the descent to the lunar surface;...
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    orbit, and the crew restarted the S-IVB third stage to achieve trans-lunar injection (TLI) and send them towards the Moon. The vehicle shook again while...
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